Improvement in sewing-machine and its supporting-table



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MILTON OHASnOr HAvEnHiLL, ASSieNOH To HiiiSHLr AND HORACE CHASE, or BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

Letters Patent No. 105,548, dated aly 19, 14870.

IMPROVEMENT IN SEWING-MACHINE ,AND ITS SIPPRTINC-JIABLEI The Schedule referred to'in these Letters Patent and. making part of the same. v

To all persons to whom these presents may come Be it known that I,`MILT0N CHASE, of Haverhill, ot' the county of Essex and State of.Massachusetts, have made a new and useful invention,havingreference to Sewing-lVIachines. and thel Tables lthereofr;`

and do hereby declare the same to be fii'llly describedV in the following specicationand represented-in thc accompanying drawing, of whichm l `Figure 1 is ailongitudinal Vsect-ion, aiid Figure 2, an end elevation of a sewing-machine and its supporting table and the driving-wheel :ip-- plied in accordance with my invention.

The main object or piirpose of such invention is to enable the sewing'finachine, while the table is stationary,- to be. inclined linto an acute anglewith the'tableV top, thereby, at the saine time, incliuing the hed-plate 4for supporting the material to be sewed.

The machineand .thetable are to have a clamping device or mechanism `by which the machine may be fixed either in an upright .position or in an inclined one, as occasion may require, y

4The object of so inclinii'ig the machine is to enable an attendant to operate or gnide, with greater conveniencevand less fatigue comparatively, the material while being sewed than would result were the bed- =plate of the machine to be maintained horizontal. Another ohjectot' having the machine capable of being inclined relatively tothe table top is that it enables articles placed on the latter to ietaiii their normal position when the machine is inclined, or while it ina-y be in the act of being, so. If the machine he fixed to the table top so that to incline the former,

thelatter has to be inclined'witli it, it will readily beeeeii that articles when on the Atable would be lia hle to roll or fall therefrom, or while the top may he inclined.

I am aware that a sewing-machine table has heen made with its top pivotedVto itsbody, and having the pivots arranged in coincidence or line with the axis of mot-ion of thc main driving-shaft of the machine, siich'being the invention of MiehaelJ; Kerigan, forV which he' has applied fora patent. I make no claim to siich, the nature of my inventionconsisting mainl yin a sewing-machine and its table, so pivoted or applied together, and arranged-in manner as hereinafter described, as to enable the sewing-machine to be n io'ved into' and fixed at one oi more inclined positions relatively to the table top.

lIn the drawing- A denotes the table, and

B, a common chain-stitch sewing-machine applied thereto in accordance with my invention,

The needle of the machine isy shown at a, the bed- Iplate at l), the driving-shaft 'at c, and its driving-pulley or wheel at d.

r an inclined position.

The machine is pivoted to the table-top, as shown at e j, and `from such machine an arm, g, extends downward beneath the table top,'and supports the-A pivot or journal h ofthe driving Hyp-,wheel The pedal It has a connecting-rod,` l, ,jointed to it and the wrist or crank m of the driving ily-wheel.

A crossed endless band, n, is extendedabont' the periphery of the two wheels 'i and d. l v There Yprojects from one side or standard, o, of the table a slotted arm, p. Y. 'A clamp-screw, r, suitably applied to suc-harm and` in its slot q, `serves to clamp lthe arm g inpositioii,"

The pivots ofthe machine may be so applied to* the table as `to be movable and adjustable vertically with respect to it, in order to 'effect the tightening of the band, or toi'any other purpose.

I makeup-claim to anything described in eitlicroi' the United States'patcnts 58,366 and 97,481.

I claim as my invention A sewing-machine and its table, as arranged and pivoted together in manner as described and repre sented, so as to enable the sewingnnachine to be moved and set into one oixmore inclined positions relatively to the tabletop', snbstantially'as and for the purpose as described.

Also, in combination with a sewing-machine audits table, so pivot-ed or applied together, the main driv-v ing ily-wheel, as applied to swing with the machine while being moved on its pivots, the whole being substlntially as explained.

- Also, in combination with a sewing-machine and table pivoted together, as Iand for theV purpose set forth, and having the driving ily-wheel arranged to swing with the machine as and while being inclined, as described, a mechanism or means for clamping to the table the machine when in either of its positions, as explained. y

\ MILTON CHASE.

Witnesses R. H. EDDY, J. R. Snow, 

